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Hello Michael,

I am a musician and I have always been attracted to the stock exchange market, however, day trading or fundamental analysis seemed always overwhelming to me and I was never convinced.

When I googled for the best trading books, yours appeared in the top 5 and attracted me the most. I was not aware of trend following but I just entered the 3rd part of “Trend Following” and I am already convinced. So now I keep on reading and I am wondering about how to build my strategy and what programs I would need to start with as I am extremely novice and also with a very bad maths background.

I hope I will find answers through your book(s) and any other ideas. Help or mentoring is more than welcome.

All the best,
Nikos L.

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Dear Michael,

I started looking into trend following a few years ago. Unfortunately, I got distracted and went back to old habits, ETF investing and stock picking as the basis for my own portfolio. I myself worked in derivatives trading for years and then built a company that offered data and analysis on open-end funds similar to Morningstar.

Now the time has come again, I would like to deal more intensively with my accumulated wealth and make myself independent of all the quacks and psychics. The idea of trend following convinces me very much and I am about to book your course to build up a sustainable wealth management for myself. Unfortunately, I can’t find any further information on what is included in the course or how it is structured. Does it really take 6 months or am I possibly faster with my prior knowledge?

I look forward to your response and of course getting started.

Many greetings,
Torsten I.

You can go faster than 6 months. Just like the Turtles.

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• Trend Following Podcast Guests
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
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• Trading Technology
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[My biggest challenge] As a discretionary trader, I would say over-trading. I tend to start seeing patterns and trading way too often and not in line with directional bias or trends. I actually started as a systematic trader and did extremely well.

Ben

You need:

• Exact rules for selecting your tracking portfolio.
• Exact rules for entering your trades at the right time.
• Exact rules for exiting your trades with a loss.
• Exact rules for exiting your trades with a profit.
• Exact rules for how much money to bet on each trade.

Don’t have that? Trouble.

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How can you move forward immediately to Trend Following profits? My books and my Flagship Course and Systems are trusted options by clients in 70+ countries.

Also jump in:

• Trend Following Podcast Guests
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
• About Us

Trend Following is for beginners, students and pros in all countries. This is not day trading 5-minute bars, prediction or analyzing fundamentals–it’s Trend Following.

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Hi Michael,

[My challenges are] consistency, risk management and knowing myself. In coming back to trading after a long hiatus and in the past is always over size my positions, force trades, take too much risk, standard stuff.

I’ve been on a journey and know myself a whole lot better nowadays, working a programme and able to be reflective instead of reactive.

I’m ready to go again.

Thanks for your help along the way.

Tony

I first need to know what you are doing exactly.

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• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
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• Trading Technology
• About Us

Trend Following is for beginners, students and pros in all countries. This is not day trading 5-minute bars, prediction or analyzing fundamentals–it’s Trend Following.

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My guest today is Raymond Baker, a businessman, author, and an authority on corruption, money laundering, and foreign policy issues. He has conducted business around the world, buying and building companies, consulting on anticorruption strategies, and advising on economic matters at the highest levels of government. Baker received a MacArthur Foundation grant to support in-depth research on illicit financial flows as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution.

The topic is his book Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy and the Way to Renew Our Broken System.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

• Perspectives on capitalism and democracy
• The financial secrecy system
• The risk of authoritarianism
• The sustenance of the democratic capitalist system

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• Raymond Baker
• How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy and the Way to Renew Our Broken System
• Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System
• Jeff Bezos

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Biggest challenge: Tolerating lateral market phases, with no trading possibilities. Especially when it lasts for many and many days.

Silvia B.

You need:

• Exact rules for selecting your tracking portfolio.
• Exact rules for entering your trades at the right time.
• Exact rules for exiting your trades with a loss.
• Exact rules for exiting your trades with a profit.
• Exact rules for how much money to bet on each trade.

Prediction is not the goal.

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How can you move forward immediately to Trend Following profits? My books and my Flagship Course and Systems are trusted options by clients in 70+ countries.

Also jump in:

• Trend Following Podcast Guests
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
• About Us

Trend Following is for beginners, students and pros in all countries. This is not day trading 5-minute bars, prediction or analyzing fundamentals–it’s Trend Following.

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Hi Michael,

My biggest challenge is changing my trading/investing system too frequently. Probably, because I am always looking for something better. I have done a lot of option writing (selling premium), and a lot of ETF indexing. I am 66, soon to be retired (2-4 years), and want a system I can learn well and grow my funds successfully.

Best,
Jeff

Go trend following. Start below!

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How can you move forward immediately to Trend Following profits? My books and my Flagship Course and Systems are trusted options by clients in 70+ countries.

Also jump in:

• Trend Following Podcast Guests
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Performance
• Research
• Markets to Trade
• Crisis Times
• Trading Technology
• About Us

Trend Following is for beginners, students and pros in all countries. This is not day trading 5-minute bars, prediction or analyzing fundamentals–it’s Trend Following.